player_setup.exe

Digital Plugin SL

This is the Softpulse installer which bundles applications with offers for additional 3rd party software, mostly unwanted adware, and may be installed with minimal consent. The application player_setup.exe by Digital Plugin SL has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. The program is a setup application that uses the Softpulse SoftwareBundler installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from www.lpmxp2031.com.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
fc129d5b46536414a94df91e5998b13e

SHA-1:
f9b740941977fd8b3078243f564cda07bc65eb8b

SHA-256:
0e68b1cf99fad4c187c39079b0fd28a61e9b5f2910a21bfabab114e28f51e86e

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

Note:
Our current pool of anti-malware engines have not currently detected this file, however based on our own detection heuristics we feel that this file is unwanted.

Description:
This 'download manager' is also considered bundleware, a utility designed to download software (possibly legitimate or opensource) and bundle it with a number of optional offers including ad-supported utilities, toolbars, shopping comparison tools and browser extensions.

Analysis date:
6/25/2025 12:04:50 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse (M)
16.7.25.12

File size:
1.3 MB (1,395,904 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Softpulse SoftwareBundler

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\player_setup.exe

Digital Signature
Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
5/26/2014 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:
5/27/2015 12:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Digital Plugin SL, O=Digital Plugin SL, L=Adeje, S=Santa Cruz de Tenerife, C=ES

Issuer:
CN=VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2010 CA, OU=Terms of use at https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)10, OU=VeriSign Trust Network, O="VeriSign, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
6B59702469CAA1B8F0FE3A86D94D6266

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
7/16/2014 10:24:14 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:M/BvNQevO/ehlmc4eXomQXmt/qR8tlydsMhJoNSh5G+Ax7:GEehfoPmdqRslhMhOsGn

Entry address:
0x99C6

Entry point:
E8, A5, 2C, 00, 00, E9, 39, FE, FF, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 8B, 45, 0C, 83, EC, 20, 56, 57, 6A, 08, 59, BE, 28, 5C, 42, 00, 8D, 7D, E0, F3, A5, 8B, 4D, 08, 5F, 5E, 85, C0, 74, 0D, F6, 00, 10, 74, 08, 8B, 01, 8B, 40, FC, 8B, 40, 18, 89, 4D, F8, 89, 45, FC, 85, C0, 74, 0C, F6, 00, 08, 74, 07, C7, 45, F4, 00, 40, 99, 01, 8D, 45, F4, 50, FF, 75, F0, FF, 75, E4, FF, 75, E0, FF, 15, D0, 40, 42, 00, C9, C2, 08, 00, 8B, 4D, F4, 64, 89, 0D, 00, 00, 00, 00, 59, 5F, 5F, 5E, 5B, 8B, E5, 5D, 51, C3, 8B, 4D, F0, 33, CD, E8, 7B...
 
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Entropy:
7.6349

Packer / compiler:
PEQuake V0.06

Code size:
136.5 KB (139,776 bytes)

The file player_setup.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

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